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# Safari 18.5 Release Notes

Released May 12, 2025 — 18.5 (20621.2.5)

## Overview

Safari 18.5 is available for iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, visionOS 2.5, macOS 15.5, macOS Sonoma, and macOS Ventura.

### Editing

#### Resolved Issues

- Fixed some errors in finding the caret position from a click or tap on iOS in vertical writing modes.  (146512180)

### Networking

#### Resolved Issues

- Fixed using WebSocket in a WebWorker causing the entire Worker to freeze.  (145149784)

### Service Workers

#### Resolved Issues

- Fixed Service Worker downloads being prematurely interrupted.  (143065672)
- Fixed moving a download file to its final destination.  (146326574)

### Web API

#### New Features

- Added support for Declarative Web Push on macOS.  (148109003)

### Web Extensions

#### Resolved Issues

- Fixed `declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess` permission removing site access even though the extension already has permission to inject scripts.  (145484265)

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